The recent and I would say unhealthy, interest in Opus Dei (or
Octopus Dei as it is sometimes known,) is due I suspect, to its political and financial
tentacles that extend into many dark corners of this fallen world, does fortunately
offer my son, James and myself a chance to scrutinize and try to understand the secretive
facts about Opus Dei.

Founded in Spain by a young Catholic priest, Josemaria Escriva
de Balaguer in 1928, with the intention according to him, after
a vision that he claimed to have had, that, "God wants Christians to be Saints
and Apostles."

Opus Dei would it seems over the next 40+ years,
offer advice to its many willing devotees concerning sexual conduct, family life,
spiritual devotion and the promotion, naturally enough, of Opus Dei. And encourage
new adepts of how they should all observe the dictates of Escriva. (One is reminded
of Chairman Mao's dangerous
little "Red Book" that influenced three generations of militant Chinese, and still
does!)

(1902-1975)

Since 1945 Opus Dei's creeping influence in the Catholic church
and its multi-layered finances have dramatically expanded. And as Rome's Vatican
II beliefs have since then marched dramatically to the political left with its
smothering emphasis on the social gospel, it seems somehow Opus Dei has remained very
much bonded to the distant days of pre-Vatican II. I'm not sure how they have managed
this in today's magnanimous prevalent culture.

But they surely have. However, many of today's Catholics (and the
many that I knew), view Opus Dei as an unpleasant fascist
movement, indeed many professional Catholics do wonder why the Roman Catholic
hierarchy blindly allows this pseudo clerical movement to work and proselytise in
parishes? What's going on, they ask?

Incidentally, I might add, today's loyal Catholics have always
observed the shadowy reputation that Opus Dei enjoys, with its assorted international
connections with many fascist governments since the Second World War, as very, very
dubious.But Opus Dei has always been anti-Communist and
I suspect rather proud of it. And I would suspect Opus Dei still views the churches
"liberation theology" message as Marxist in everything...but name.

But politics does make strange bedfellows, does it not?

Its also no coincidence that the late founder (now a Catholic "saint")
always had it seemed, some very personal connections with the late General Franco's
regime in Spain, General Stroessner's Paraguay, General Pinochet's Chile
and Fascist Portugal. Today its ethereal authority is witnessed in Peru, Argentina,
and El Salvador and also in Austria. Now that to me is some assorted political racing
colours to be associated with, isn't it?

The sect's founder, Mgr. Escivera would always, we are informed,
be deeply suspicious of all people who criticised him or Opus Dei, along with freemasons,
the Illuminati and
possibly even the Jesuits.
(Too far to the left for his personal choice, I suspect.)

In later life he once boasted:

"I have met lots of bishops, and different popes, but I am the
only founder!"

And he must have had
many loyal friends in high places in the plush rooms of the Vatican, for between his
death and his canonization, as a "saint," it took a matter of some 17 years. This
must be a religious record in the history of the Catholic church, don't you think?

Yet somehow both these
active religious political wings of the Catholic church do seem to happily co-exist,
with perhaps I would suggest, the very influential Opus Dei surviving at the popular
behest of the hierarchy of Catholic Bishops.Indeed
even in England, with its long tradition of liberal views, the UK's Catholic Bishops,
do seem to have a comfortable working relationship with Opus Dei.

But
what the serving laity at parish level or the secular clergy thinks of this close
relationship is another matter.

Today the controversial
Opus Dei is granted from the Vatican a "personal prelature." And since 1982 they still
remain happily outside the supervision of whatever diocesan bishop they come under
in parochial or other works. Some past favour from the last pope must
have augmented this privilege and I have to ask do other religious orders have such
a blessing from Rome?

Statistics

Some exterior estimates
suggest a popular worldwide membership at around 80,000 active committed divisions,
and with 1,500 serving priests operating in many countries, with a further 15
consecrated bishops that we know of supervising them in their parishes and educational
works such as at universities and other educational facilities.

It
has been claimed by the press, but not substantiated, that the former UK minister for
Education, Ruth Kelly, along with her husband, joined the Opus Dei at university. (Maybe
she introduced Tony
Blair into this sect also?)

It does seem to me that
this is a well-oiled religious machine.

According
to Opus Dei money watchers, the financial worth of the order is estimated at $2.8
billion! Indeed according to some cult observers, the Catholic church in just America
alone is itself valued at $102 billion. Absolutely amazing, don't you think? If nothing
else they certainly have the Midas touch for accumulating wealth!

(Masonic chequered
floors)

One smart piece of real
estate that we know of (and there must be many others we don't know about) is located
in the fashionable Lexington Avenue in New York City. This today is the abode of the
Opus Dei worldwide operations Inc. Once valued at $42 million when it was constructed
in the early 1980s, one can only speculate what its worth is today.

(Expensive marble
floors)

The early church did
not seem to be glorified with such blessed divine business acumen did they? You know
they didn't!

Because,
we read in the New Testament of the Lord Jesus and His apostles, being hungry and
eating ears of corn (Matt.12:1.)

I
mean can you imagine Benedict XVI dining on ears of corn with cardinal Sodano,
Rowan Williams and Gene Robinson tasting this simple meal? You can't, can you?

And did not the Lord
remind many who would listen:

"The foxeshaveholes,and the birds of
the air have nests;but the Son of manhathnotwhere to lay his head"
(Matt. 8:20.)

Now
I'm sure the cardinals of Westminster, Paris or Chicago have more than 5 or 6 desired
locations to rest their weary heads each evening, or perhaps your local archbishop,
in fact why don't you ask him when you see him next.

And the apostle Paul,
writing to a young preacher, asked him to "bring my cloak" (2 Tim. 4:13.)This
when he was alone, shivering and hungry in a damp Roman cell! Do you see what I am
saying? The apostle Paul, the author of 14 epistles in the New Testament, now awaits
his favoured cloak, and how warm was that you might ask? We can only wonder. So until
it arrived, Paul had nothing but the cold to keep him warm!

And
what about Jesus and His chosen apostles having no food it seems, for I suspect a
midday meal was all they got to eat and share. And how would you react
if after hearing your door bell ring you opened it and saw the Lord with the favoured
twelve on your doorstep or in your front porch perhaps waiting to be invited in to
your home?

Makes
you think doesn't it? It also seems that they had no current abode or dwelling place
in which to sleep, but slept I suspect, many times under the bright stars-AMAZING,
don't you think?

What's My Point?

Nowhere do I read in
the New Testament of:

The
First National Bank of Jerusalem

The
Allied bank of Bethlehem

The
United bank of Nazareth

The
Royal Bank of Antioch. Or was it Corinth?

If
God can "bless" the Catholic church today and all the evangelical television ministries
(or has He?), could He not have set up adequate fluid money transactions for His only
Son and His faithful followers two thousand years ago, rather than wait to turn on
the money tap in the 20th century?

What's going on here?

And
yes, I know that Judas was the group's financial man, so he must have had a money
background. But look what happened to him and his reputation? Also, don't
forget the cursed thirty pieces of
silver and how money sealed the fate of Judas at the end of a twisting rope!

It
all rather seems to me, that money and its portentous power as written in the New
Testament, is cursed rather that blessed. Oh and what about that much quoted rich
man and the camel?Remember that one?

Finally
what did the Paul warn in 1 Timothy 6:10:

"For
the love of money is the root of all evil."

But
don't tell Pope Benedict XVI this, for are we not reliably informed that the Vatican's financial
gurus control some 7,000 bank accounts! WOW!

And who would wish to
forget the terrible final warning of Jesus:

"Forwhat is
a manprofited, if he
shall gain the wholeworld,andlose his ownsoul?orwhat shall
a mangive in exchange for hissoul?"
(Matt. 16:26.)

And with that final terrible
warning on the building of the false fabric of financial empires from the very Lord
Himself, I suggest that organized religion and those who prop it up, need to get out
of that lucrative currency market. Just leave it to the secular boys, after all its
their god - well isn't it that they worship?

Just
a few years ago the mention of the shadowy group "Opus Dei" would have raised very
few secular heads. Well maybe in some Church circles. But
not today.

To date, the best seller The
Da Vinci Codehas sold a staggering several million copies.

I suppose Dan Brown has
become a wonderful recruiting sergeant for Opus Dei. (I am not aware that he is in
any way associated with this Catholic sect, but if you know otherwise please let us
know.) As well as the many popular guided tours in Roslyn, Scotland and in France,
all it seems to introduce even more gullible people to Opus Dei and its strange non-Biblical
religious rites.

Recently some further
personal research unearthed by my son does seem to paint Mgr. Esvavira as a rather
cruel misogynist. Former Opus Dei member, Maria Del Carmen, described in her book Beyond
the Threshold: Life in Opus Dei, of a very vivid sexual remark that he once made
towards a terrified young woman, who as a paid up member of Opus Dei (yes they
do bestow their salaries to the order, it's mandatory!), had according to the author,
committed the unforgiving sin of posting a letter without the Mgr's. permission!

Incoming
and outgoing mail from all Opus Dei houses, it seems were always scrutinised and read
(sounds like KGB censorship!)

Former
member Joseph Gonzales witnessed Bible's and other book's being burnt in the garden
of his Opus Dei house. (Sounds like a Nazi book-burning gig, in Germany in the 1930s,
ordered by propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbles.)

So what is going on here,
I have to enquire. Well let's see shall we?

Please
remember that political mind control was used very successfully in Red China and Nazi
Germany. Assorted cults under Joseph
Smith, Brigham Young, Jim Jones and "Judge"
Rutherford thrived on it. And still do. So does it not seem possible that the
present Catholic church must also be guilty of such a serious crime against these
obliging members entrusted to their care?

I've
also read past members who were forcibly rescued from this evil sect by concerned
families, had to financially resort to having them de-programmed!Its
all been documented.

You
know I'd love to hear from any readers who had to pay a professional to de-programme
a family member out of the sect. I also wonder who is qualified to carry out this
dangerous work. If you have any information do let us know at this website.

Warning

If you're a paid up member
of Opus Dei or just an admirer GET OUT OF IT!

If
you are thinking of giving it a try PLEASE DON'T!

If
you know a friend or family member involved with this sect WARN THEM!

DON'T
DELAY! THE DESTINATION OF THEIR PRECIOUS SOUL IS AT STAKE!

If
you know someone who has escaped please let us know.

OPUS
DEI IS NOT GOD'S WORK! IT NEVER WAS!

TO THE MANY FAMILIES
OF MEMBERS SADLY STILL IN ITS CLUTCHES, IT IS TO
THEM SIMPLY THE WORK OF LUCIFER.

Conclusion

I suppose what I am trying
to emphasis is that all those people in these cults and
others must look for the exit door before it is too late.

Then when you have walked
through it, repent, and then seek the saving grace of being saved through being born
again.AMEN!